Sample Research Internship Projects

Wonder what kind of project you'll work on as a BU Research Intern in Science & Engineering? Here's a list of just a few of the hundreds of exciting projects Research Interns have completed in past summers:

Year Discipline Project Title Faculty Mentor
1997 Manufacturing Engineering Creating a Closted-Loop Control of the CVD Process Dr. Michael Gevelber
1998 Physics Building a Resolution Test for a Solid Immersion Lens Dr. Bennett Goldberg
1999 Biology The Effect of Thioreductase Site Mutant Treatment on Embryonic Chick Retina Cell Suspensions Dr. Robert Hausman
2000 Chemistry Coarse-Grained Representation of the Structure and Kinetics of Folding in the Alzheimer’s Amyloid Peptide Dr. John Straub
2001 Astronomy Temperature Sensitivity of an APS533 3-axis Fluxgate Manetometer for Constellation Pathfinder Dr. Harlan Spence
2002 Biology Molecular Mechanisms of Post-Natal Cardiomyopathy Dr. Frank Naya
2003 Electrical and Computer Engineering The Construction of a Digital Tracking Microscope Dr. Michael Ruane
2004 Physics Using computer Simulations to Model Correlations Found in Ion Bombardment of Surfaces Dr. Karl Ludwig
2005 Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine IL-16- and I 309-Mediated Human CD4+ T Cell Cemotaxis is Additive Dr. Cruikshank
2006 Periodontology and Oral Biology xMAP Multiplying as a Novel Method for Protein Detection: Impact on Inflammation Research Dr. Alp Kantarci
2007 Chemistry Synthesis of N-7 Substituted Purines for Application in the Synthesis of Asmarine B Dr. Scott Schaus
2008 Psychology Effects of Delay on Objects Representtion in Visual Short-Term Memory Dr. David Somers